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Average view duration

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

nounCommon term

In social media & content creation, average view duration means: The mean amount of time spent on a video per counted view, calculated using the platform's view rules.

In Turkish: ortalama izleme süresi

How it is used

Compare average view duration with video length and view definitions; it differs from total watch time.

Example sentences

  1. The average view duration was forty seconds for the two-minute video.

    The mean averages viewing time across counted views; it is not the total watch time.

  2. We compared average view duration across videos of similar length.

    Similar video lengths make the comparison easier to interpret.

Common collocations

  • measure average view duration
  • improve average view duration
  • watch timeThe total amount of time people have spent watching a video or a channel's videos, usually shown in minutes or hours.
  • audience retentionA measure of how much of a video people watch before they leave, often shown as a graph or a percentage.

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